i wish the whole world was dead serious about food instead of silly rockets and machines and explosives using everybody's food money to blow their heads off anyway.

We all agree it's too big to keep up with, that we're surrounded by life, that we'll never understand it, so we center it all in by swigging Scotch from the bottle and when it's empty I run out of the car and buy another one, period.

Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift.

You aren't ever going to be anything in this world unless you do what you want to do, when you want to do it--don't plan anything, just go out and do it.

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

You can't live in this world but there's nowhere else to go.

And as far as I can see the world is too old for us to talk about it with our new words.